Suprarenal abdominal aortic dissection with retrograde formation of a massive descending thoracic aneurysm.
Abdominal aortic dissections are rare events, particularly those that originate in a suprarenal location. We herein report such a patient whose chronic dissection resulted in the formation of a giant descending thoracic aneurysm.
Baumgartner
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Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance 90509, USA.
Omari
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Donayre
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D000328:Adult; D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D017544:Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D017545:Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography